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The team attack: A powerful spiritual strategy!

Paul revealed an important principle in Philippians 4:10 “But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly that now at last your care for me has flourished again; though you surely did care, but you lacked opportunity”. There are times where you might want to do something that God placed in your heart, and it might be very important, but because of circumstances and issues, you seemingly never get to it. Thus it doesn’t get done, even thought you know it’s important. It could be a family or ministry related issue, or it could be something that God placed in your heart to do. In times like this, we need to not only pray, you also have to have others join with you in your prayers with what I call “the team attack.” In Colossians 4:3, Paul asked for prayer so that God would open a door of opportunity for him to be able to proclaim the Gospel where he was at. Look at how Paul asks for help: “At the same time pray for us, too, that God will open a door [of opportunity] to us for the word, to proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I have been imprisoned.” He needed doors of opportunity to open for him, so he asked his fellow brothers and sisters to pray for him so that he could accomplish what God had placed in his heart. Have you asked your close friends to pray for you for opportunities/doors to open for you.? This is a powerful strategy. Ask and you shall receive!

Colossians 4:3 “At the same time pray for us, too, that God will open a door [of opportunity] to us for the word, to proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I have been imprisoned”

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Your success in ministry will only work as you are in relationship with the Body of Christ!

Relationships are vital for life!!! God said it’s not good for man to be alone. Just take a look at your body. Most take the body for granted. Yet your body is composed of many organs, extremities, skin, bone, tendons, etc. Have you noticed that when you have an upset stomach, your whole body reacts? If you slam your toe against a wall by mistake, your whole body reacts. When you clap, you need both your hands. When you eat, you need both hands, your mouth, your teeth, your tongue, your stomach……I guess you get the point. If your heart fails, the whole body can die.  It’s all about quality relationships. Your relationship with your church family is important. Your relationship with your wife/husband/children/father/mother is important, We were made for relationships. Above all, your relationship with God in Christ is all-important. Are you cultivating and investing in your relationships, especially in your relationship with God? Remember, in the same way that your body can die if one or more of your organs give up and cease to function within the body, if we give up on our relationship with God, we will die spiritually. Never, ever give up that all-important relationship!

Ephesians 4: 15-16 “But, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ— from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love”